Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
The similitude is drawn from the two sources of Eastern terror: the "traveler," i. e., "the thief in the night," coming suddenly to plunder; the "armed man," literally "the man of the shield," the armed robber. The habit of indolence is more fatally destructive than these marauders.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Proverbs 6:11:
Proverbs 24:33-34
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